Mommy ill day
Sick day? As a rest at abode mom? Hahahahahaahahaha!
We've caught a dyad small-scale colds this year, but cipher serious or long until this yesteryear weekend. Sabbatum nosotros all felt fine. Lord's Day I woke upward alongside a pitiable cold. I'm non certain how much truth is inwards this, but I experience similar colds hitting me hard when I'm pregnant. In whatever case, this i definitely knocked me off my feet. The toddlers simply had drippy noses, though nosotros could nation they weren't feeling good yesteryear how long they slept. Our 5-year quondam together with my hubby, thankfully, even thence take away maintain non shown whatever symptoms.
Lord's Day my hubby took our 5-year quondam to church. They together with thence went to dejeuner together with ran a dyad errands nosotros needed done. Afterwards, he dropped our 5-year quondam off at abode together with went to schoolhouse to report for a dyad hours. Mon was a regular schoolhouse 24-hour interval for him. (My hubby is currently going through ability school.) And this pregnant, nether the conditions momma was taking aid of a 5-year quondam together with 2-year quondam twins alone.
Sick days are i of those things that really genuinely take away maintain gotten ameliorate every bit the kids take away maintain gotten older. Even dorsum when our oldest was an infant, it is hard taking aid of an infant when you lot don't experience well. They can't create anything for themselves. If they are crawling, they are pulling upward on things together with falling over or putting themselves inwards harms way. You take away maintain spoon feeding, bottle feeding, constant diaper changing, rocking to sleep, nap schedules, and, Lord preclude the infant gets sick when you lot do! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fussy infant when you lot are also sick is thence hard to manage. Then nosotros had twins together with it became exponentially to a greater extent than difficult. Instead of caring for i infant, nosotros had two. Two infants when you lot are sick are an extreme juggling act, peculiarly if they come upward downwardly alongside it too! You tin sometimes do fine taking aid of ii good babies when they are on the same schedule, but when they are both sick, they both want to last held and they both take away maintain needs that tin last hard to run into when you lot are nether the weather. On transcend of that, I was also taking aid of a toddler, bouncing around together with wanting something to do. I call upward many colds where I was sitting on the flooring alongside a box of tissues and two crying babies inwards my arms spell my oldest rolled around on the couch watching movies.
These yesteryear ii days I've been abode sick with a 5 together with a one-half twelvemonth quondam together with ii 2 together with a one-half twelvemonth olds. It really has been i of those times when having twins is a major create goodness together with they entertain each other. Our toddlers spent much of the yesteryear ii days pushing trains together together with playing theatre inwards our playroom. Occasionally they would convey out their "babies" for me to ooh together with aah over, piffling stuffed panda bears together with dinosaurs cradled inwards their arms. They would chase each other around our household unit of measurement room together with play cover together with seek alongside each other. (Strangely, those types of games aren't usually also wild alongside ii two twelvemonth olds, but every bit shortly every bit you lot throw a 5 twelvemonth quondam inwards at that spot it reaches a whole novel degree of wild.) I even thence had to take away maintain aid of them together with modify their diapers. However, toddlers don't wing through diapers similar infants do, thence the diaper changes were less frequent. I left snacks together with drinks inside their attain together with could straight them to the snack pile when they told me they were hungry, "It's on the table, love." They brought me diapers together with wipes to modify them when they told me they were stinky. If they got also wild, I redirected their play without having to larn upward from the couch, "Boys, also wild. Can you lot larn honour your trains to push?" When they woke upward from nap fussy together with groggy (they take away maintain a mild version of my cold), they came out of their bedrooms together with stumbled over to me on the couch for later nap cuddles-- I didn't necessitate to larn begin them out of cribs together with at in i lawsuit starting fourth dimension on diaper changes together with getting bottles ready.
As for our 5 together with a one-half twelvemonth old, he has been awesome. Seriously. I take away maintain been singing his praises for the yesteryear dyad days. I position the fine art box inwards the role for him where his Legos together with K'Nex are. He has been making me "get ameliorate soon" hearts together with cards since I got sick. Yesterday he fifty-fifty made me a newspaper rose. I've allow him play out forepart together with at the common behind our house. He wears a sentinel together with I nation him what fourth dimension he needs to depository fiscal establishment agree inwards alongside me, "When the long dark manus is on the 9, you lot necessitate to come upward inwards together with depository fiscal establishment agree upward alongside Momma." He has religiously come upward inwards at the right times. I create believe he feels he is coming inwards to depository fiscal establishment agree on me together with non depository fiscal establishment agree inwards alongside me every bit every fourth dimension he enters the theatre he quietly comes inwards the household unit of measurement room alongside a, "How are you lot feeling, Momma?" together with lays his manus on my forehead. He tin brand sandwiches for himself together with for his brothers, every bit good every bit larn tangerines together with such from the refrigerator together with pare them for all iii of them. He has brought me blankets, pillows, Kleenex, water... All alongside the sweetest attitude. He is thence excited nosotros take away maintain some other babe on the way together with I think he has been practicing his caretaking skills. I woke upward from a short nap on the couch to honour him rubbing my feet. When he saw I was awake, he said, "Hey, Momma! I'm trying to assist brand you lot experience better" He has played alongside his brothers, watched movies alongside me, played exterior when he felt cooped up, together with spent a lot of fourth dimension edifice together with drawing inwards the office.
Those take away maintain been the slow times, the things-went-perfectly times. Of course of education over the yesteryear ii days we've had crazy times. Lord's Day nighttime a piffling earlier my hubby came home, I started feeling thence overwhelmed. With a pounding caput and 3 kids running around wrestling together with misbehaving, I didn't know how nosotros would larn through the residuum of the evening. I wanted to curl upward inwards bed alongside a box of tissues together with some Vicks, non patrol toddlers who kept jumping on the couch. I felt also tired to talk, allow lonely larn the boys laid for bed. Yesterday i of the toddlers cruel downwardly together with bumped his knee. I came inwards the playroom to reckon if he was okay only to discovery that instead of playing quietly alongside their cars together with trains, the toddlers had dumped all of our board games out of their boxes into a pile on the floor, including 3 of our 5-year old's puzzles. Oh, I felt thence deflated. It was fourth dimension for their nap anyway; later tucking them in, I sat on the playroom flooring alongside a pounding head, running nose, together with started sorting through all our game pieces. Lord's Day afternoon spell my hubby was out alongside our 5-year old, I heard a stool scraping on the kitchen floor. I told the toddlers to come upward on out of the kitchen together with got the reply, "One minute!" Suspicious, I walked inwards the kitchen to honour them alongside a box of markers together with i of my Lennox bowls, pilfered off the counter. They've all iii been bored at times over the yesteryear 2 days, Momma also sick together with tired to excogitation anything during the day. They come upward whining over to the couch, "Moooooomma.... I desire to cuddle...." which really agency they desire to crawl nether the blanket alongside me together with starting fourth dimension using it every bit a play fort, wiggling together with squirming together with starting tickle fights. Silly when I am well, uncomfortable (and irritating) when I'm sick together with 18-weeks pregnant. And over the yesteryear 2 days nosotros take away maintain works life thence many tissues shredded yesteryear our dog, no affair how hard I attempt to selection them up.
Thankfully today I'm feeling better. Still congested, even thence a piffling groggy, but much, much better. Our 5-year quondam allow out a cheer when he saw me come upward inwards the kitchen this forenoon together with consume a large breakfast. "Are you lot feeling better, Momma? Yay!!" Even to a greater extent than exciting, the Navy has given my hubby 2 days off due to the conditions advisory, thence I'll take away maintain lots of assist today. There has been a festive air inwards our theatre all forenoon alongside Momma feeling ameliorate together with Daddy abode to consume breakfast alongside us.
Here are some of my tips when abode sick:
- Don't create whatever unnecessary household chores. If you lot don't have to create it, don't create it. Wait until you lot experience better.
I did no dishes yesterday. When my hubby came home, he cleaned upward the kitchen, which was fabulous. However, if he hadn't take away maintain done the dishes concluding night, I would create them today when I had my release energy up. Laundry... shudder. I'll last catching upward on that today too. - Snacks, snacks, snacks, snacks, together with sandwiches.
Perhaps my children take away maintain been carb loading for the yesteryear 2 days, but larn for slow food. I kenneled the domestic dog together with position a small-scale render of snacks inside their reach. No, I create non unremarkably give them snacks-- line solid believer inwards mealtimes every bit a family-- and, no, they are non unremarkably allowed to consume anywhere except the kitchen table. However, it was thence prissy non to take away maintain to larn upward together with brand nutrient all day. I tried to give them foods that weren't also messy: sliced apples, granola bars, bananas, tangerines, slices of bread, etc. - Put H2O inside their reach.
Again, non unremarkably something I am large on. I create non similar our toddlers to take away maintain unrestricted access to something that volition brand a mess (or ruin our household electronics). Since our 5-year quondam tin attain the kids cups together with fill upward his ain cup, I only position H2O out for our toddlers. I filled ii H2O bottles upward together with laid them on a java tabular array inside optic sight of the couch. That way I could reckon the H2O bottles together with popular off along an optic on them spell drinking them. When I got upward to fill upward my ain water, I checked to brand certain they had water, that way I wouldn't hear, "Momma, to a greater extent than water!" later I was all settled inwards to my couch nest. - Close off areas of the house.
While they may take away maintain "free reign" of the theatre spell you lot are stuck on the couch, they don't necessitate access to the whole house. I even locked several of the doors of the theatre that I didn't desire them in, including some of the bathrooms that our toddlers could brand a mess inwards (no, give cheers you lot to toothpaste squeezed all over the bathroom!). I also shut off the primary bedroom, the laundry room, together with our invitee room. - Find what is entertaining together with curvature the rules.
I don't similar the tv on all day. And I don't similar the boys to last able to attain crayons whenever they desire to. And I don't similar our household unit of measurement room littered alongside toys (that's what the playroom is for!). But the yesteryear dyad days, nosotros watched kids' movies together with shows inwards the morning; I watched my shows inwards the afternoon during nap/quiet time. I position crayons on the kitchen tabular array for our toddlers together with the fine art box inwards the role for our 5-year old. I allow the boys play inwards the hallway to the invitee room together with force trucks all over the house. Yes, nosotros popular off along sitting on Legos inwards our couch cushions, but they all played together with nosotros all made it through the cold. I received a lot of artwork the yesteryear dyad days since they could attain crayons together with newspaper whenever they wanted too-- by together with large "get good soon" cards together with that really helped me experience better. :) - Try to take away maintain aid of yourself.
Man, at that spot take away maintain been many colds that I powered through together with tried to create line organisation every bit usual. The colds dragged; I was exhausted at the halt of the 24-hour interval together with for to a greater extent than days. Something nigh existence meaning helped me last a piffling to a greater extent than selfish, residuum more, quaff to a greater extent than water, position things off that really didn't really necessitate to larn done (ahem, laundry). I took curt naps when the boys were watching a moving painting together with slept when the toddlers napped, having my 5-year quondam larn play quietly inwards the role or sitting inwards the household unit of measurement room alongside his painting books. I told the boys that I wasn't feeling good together with needed to residuum when they pleaded alongside me take away maintain out Play doh (a hands on action when you lot take away maintain ii twelvemonth quondam twins). Thankfully our refrigerator is stocked every bit I late went grocery shopping, thence I didn't experience bad nigh non cooking meals; nosotros had enough of supplies for sandwiches together with pasta. (Plus our fabulous neighbors brought us over tons of nutrient when they works life out I was sick-- THANK YOU!)
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